Controlling hot electrons via plasmon coupling to enhance catalytic reactions in plasmonic Au@SiO2-Pt structures by Yuan, Xu

“…Mechanism analysis shows that the higher photocatalytic ability of Au@SiO2-Pt is owing to the Pt-generated hot electrons induced by plasmon coupling enhanced electric field near Pt nanoparticles. …”
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Graphene quantum dots assisted exfoliation of atomically-thin 2D materials and as-formed 0D/2D van der Waals heterojunction for HER by Gong, Jun, Zhang, Zheye, Zeng, Zhiping, Wang, Wenjun, Kong, Lingxuan, Liu, Jiyang, Chen, Peng

“…Further, it is shown that the as-formed GQD/MoS2 van der Waals heterojunctions (vdWHs) give enhanced performance for electrocatalysis of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) owing to the synergistic coupling at the 0D/2D heterojunction, delivering a current density of 10 mA cm−2 at a low overpotential of 160 mV with a small Tafel slope of 56.9 mV dec−1. …”
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Advanced thermally drawn multimaterial fibers: structure-enabled functionalities by Wang, Zhe, Chen, Mengxiao, Zheng, Yu, Zhang, Jing, Wang, Zhixun, Yang, Jiao, Zhang, Qichong, He, Bing, Qi, Miao, Zhang, Haozhe, Li, Kaiwei, Wei, Lei

“…Thermally drawn multimaterial fibers have experienced rapid development in the past two decades owing to the high scalability, uniformity, and material and structure compatibility of the thermal drawing technique. …”
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Vypal2: a versatile peptide ligase for precision tailoring of proteins by Zhang, Dingpeng, Wang, Zhen, Hu, Side, Lescar, Julien, Tam, James P., Liu, Chuan-Fa

“…The last two decades have seen an increasing demand for new protein-modification methods from the biotech industry and biomedical research communities. Owing to their mild aqueous reaction conditions, enzymatic methods based on the use of peptide ligases are particularly desirable. …”
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Explainable data-driven optimization for complex systems with non-preferential multiple outputs using belief rule base by Chang, Leilei, Zhang, Limao

“…Case study results show that NPMO–BRB has shown superior performance in comparison with the random forest (RF), the backpropagation neural network (BPNN), the Gradient Gaussian Process (GPR), as well as multiple separate BRBs. Owing to the explainability provided by the NPMO–BRB approach, further investigations into the belief distribution comparison reveal more information that can be used as practical work guidelines.…”
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In situ synthesis of silver nanoparticles in poly(vinyl) alcohol layer coated thin film membrane for seawater desalination by Jayavardhana D/o Balaji

“…The observed improvement in the salt rejection of the PVA-coated membrane was owing to the additional selectivity and stability provided by the hydrophilic PVA layer. …”
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Person re-identification via pose-aware multi-semantic learning by Luo, Xiangzhong, Duong, Luan H. K., Liu, Weichen

“…Existing methods mostly explore the highest-semantic feature embedding, ignoring the insights hidden among the earlier layers. Moreover, owing to the misalignment and pose variations, pose-related information is of great significance and needs to be comprehensively utilized. …”
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Modulating emission of boric acid into highly efficient and color-tunable afterglow via dehydration-induced through-space conjugation by Zhang, Zhen, Wang, Zhenguang, Liu, Xiao, Shi, Yu-E, Li, Zhiqiang, Zhao, Yanli

“…In addition, a tunable multicolor afterglow in the 420-490 nm range is achieved owing to the enhancement of the RTP and thermally activated delayed fluorescence of PHA, where BA exerts a confinement effect on the guest molecules. …”
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Present and future of functionalized Cu current collectors for stabilizing lithium metal anodes by Liu Yuhang, Li, Yifan, Sun, Jinmeng, Du, Zhuzhu, Hu, Xiaoqi, Bi, Jingxuan, Liu, Chuntai, Ai, Wei, Yan, Qingyu

“…Functionalized Cu current collectors have so far exhibited significant regulatory effects on stabilizing Li metal anodes (LMAs), and hold a great practical potential owing to their easy fabrication, low-cost and good compatibility with the existing battery technology. …”
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Carbon dioxide capture from biomass pyrolysis gas as an enabling step of biogenic carbon nanotube synthesis and hydrogen recovery by Veksha, Andrei, Lu, Jintao, Tsakadze, Zviad, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…Furthermore, the results suggest that CO2 capture with the sorbent has a potential to outperform a liquid alkaline scrubber owing to avoided liquid organic waste generation, sorbent regenerability and higher H2 recovery from biomass pyrolysis gas.…”
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A universal transfer network for machinery fault diagnosis by Yu, Xiaolei, Zhao, Zhibin, Zhang, Xingwu, Tian, Shaohua, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Li, Xiaoli, Chen, Xuefeng

“…Domain adaptation (DA) methods have achieved promising results in machinery fault diagnosis owing to their ability to mitigate the distribution discrepancy between domains. …”
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Small but prospective: development of enzyme-responsive small molecule fluorescent probes for specific bacterial imaging by Yan, Evelias Hui Xin

“…Bacterial infections remain as a prevailing situation in our today’s society. Owing to the evolving pathogenicity of bacteria, whereby more drug-resistant bacteria has been emerging and bacteria developing their own defense mechanism, traditional antimicrobial approaches like antibiotics treatment have been clinically ineffective. …”
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Rational design and synthesis of degradable poly(imidazolium ester) antibiotics by Xu, Xiaofei

“…The essential quest for innovative medications to address drug-resistant bacterial infections carries immense importance, owing to the widespread emergence of bacterial resistance against traditional antibiotics. …”
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Net section fracture of aluminium alloy angle-to-plate connections: testing, modelling and design by Jiang, Ke, Li, Shuai, Guo, Tong, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…The evaluation results revealed that the codified design rules provided inaccurate net section resistance predictions, owing to the lack of proper consideration of the key influencing factors including the out-of-plane and in-plane eccentricities, connection length and type of the connected leg. …”
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Anodic TiO2 nanotube arrays with high surface area for dye-sensitized solar cells by Wang, Xiaoyan

“…Highly-ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays prepared by electrochemical anodization have been developed as an intriguing photoanode owing to vertical tube alignment for one-dimensional electron transport and available inner and outer tube surface for dye attachment. …”
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Electronic band structure and optical gain of GaNxBiyAs1−x−y/GaAs pyramidal quantum dots by Song, Zhi-Gang, Bose, Sumanta, Fan, Wei-Jun, Li, Shu-Shen

“…With an increase in QD size, we observe a red shift in the emission energy and emergence of secondary peaks owing to transitions or greater energy compared with the fundamental transition.…”
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Ultrathin 2D photocatalysts : electronic-structure tailoring, hybridization, and applications by Di, Jun, Xiong, Jun, Li, Huaming, Liu, Zheng

“…As a sustainable technology, semiconductor photocatalysis has attracted considerable interest in the past several decades owing to the potential to relieve or resolve energy and environmental‐pollution issues. …”
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Efficient generation of an array of single silicon-vacancy defects in silicon carbide by Wang, Junfeng, Zhou, Yu, Zhang, Xiaoming, Liu, Fucai, Li, Yan, Li, Ke, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Guanzhong, Gao, Weibo

“…Color centers in silicon carbide have increasingly attracted attention in recent years owing to their excellent properties such as single-photon emission, good photostability, and long spin-coherence time even at room temperature. …”
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Synthesis and development of novel small molecule inhibitors of nucleophilic hydrolases by Gayatri

“…These templates have potential to inhibit nucleophilic enzymes by covalent reaction with nucleophilic active site residues, owing to the presence of their electrophilic boron or γ-lactam carbonyl groups, respectively.…”

Characterization of oil palm fruitlets using artificial neural network by Olukayode, Ojo Adedayo

“…Accurate data of the dielectric properties of oil palm fruitlets and the development of appropriate models are central to the quest of quality sensing and characterization, and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Adaptive Neurofuzzy Inference Systems (ANFIS) are becoming increasingly relevant for this purpose owing to their excellent pattern matching and generalization ability. …”
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